another good CC day!

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed May 24 10:04:56 2000

  I stopped by one of my favorites scrap yards yesterday and found SIX
Cromemco Z2D S-100 bus computers. They were getting ready to shove them
into a container of scrap that was heading for China. These a nicely loaded
copmputers that have two floppy drives and a hard drive. They were mounted
in 19 inch racks and were used to operate some kind of test stations and
were in perfect condition. I managed to get one more or less complete one
and most of the cards out of the others but they wanted the racks to appear
full so that won't let me have any of the other cases, power supplies or
drives. I watched as one was smashed to half it's original size trying to
make it fit in the shipping container and another was torn to shreds (20
pound computer vs 12,000 pound forklift). I substituted DEC stuff in the
shipping container for the last three so they have a short reprieve. I
think I've made a deal to swap some other rack mount stuff for the
remaining cases and parts. (Keeping my fingers crossed!)

  I also found three TRS model 4s there. These just came in yesterday and
should be safe until Saturday since the owner's are out of town till then.
They appear to be complete and in good shape but have been in storage for a
LONG time and are dirty and dusty. That's all I know about them. If anyone
is in the central Florida area and wants one or all of the model 4s and can
pick it up Saturday, contact me directly for directions.

   Joe
Received on Wed May 24 2000 - 10:04:56 BST